[SunHELP] PASSLENGTH attribute in /etc/default/passwd doesn't appearto work

[jh]

simple thing ;-)

Solaris only supports a pathlength between 6 and 8 characters! This will work.
If you use more than 8 characters only the first 8 will be used.

ymui at royalsunalliance.ca wrote:

> Hello Administrators,
>
> I've changed the PASSLENGTH value to 12 in /etc/default/passwd, but it
> still acknowledges a length less than this.  There is only one patch 103178
> found for Solaris 2.5.  We run 2.8.
>
> Does anyone has a similar issue ?
>
> Thanks, Y. Mui.
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